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TOTO MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xvery txxl v in :ciern Oregon Reads The Mau fribune" IKibUahed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRJNTOG CO. 1T-39 North Fir St- Phone ROBERT W RUHL Editor HXRB GREY Advertisini Manager GtRAUD LATHAM Business Manager ZRIC ALLN JR. Managing Rdltor SARL H ADAMS. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor 8ICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor pALX ERICKSON ClrculaUon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second claa matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy lOe. Dally and Sunday One veal $12.U0 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moa 3-50 Sunday Only One vear S3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on moloi routes: Daily and Sunday One year 315.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealers 5c pel copy All Terms Cash in Advance olficial Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ol Jackson county United "Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Sesttle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vanrouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL V ASSOCIATION tJ3$23 ! vJ U ' W.MJIlls'.H.'.l S" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and to vear ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 9. 1946 (It was Friday) Bartlett picking of this year's crop started yesterday and today and will be in full swing by Mon day. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The wild garlic weed is now over-running the Willamette valley. A survey shows if cut before supper, there will be company that evening. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1936 (It was Sunday) Three possible candidates for mayor of Ashland mentioned as the last day for filing Sept. 19, grows near. Spanish War Veterans and families from Jackson county hold annual picnic in the Root picnic grounds of the Ashland park Sunday. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1926 (It was Monday) Large crowd greets William H. Gore of Medford, guest of honor in Josephine county last night. Pear shippers and growers of the Rogue river valley are losing about $1,400 per day each day new freight rates on pears re main effective. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 9. 1916 (It was Wednesday) Articles of incorporation for Applegate Lumber company, capitalized at $25,000, forward ed by C. J. Semon, J. T. Sullivan and C. L. Schieffelin to the sec retary of state. Association shippers begin generally on Monday the pack ing of Bartlett pears. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Auto production so far this year has been relatively high or low or about average? 2. Of all Americans who work for a living considerably more or fewer than half, or about half, are in labor unions? 3. The 18th amendment to U. S. Constitution provided for prohibition. It was or wasn't re pealed by the 19th? 4. The U. S. "Hurricane Sea son" is supposed to be late sum mer, mid-autumn, early winter or late spring? 5. The Great Barrier F.eef lies off New Zealand, southern tip of South America, Nantucket Is land. Australia, Florida, or An tarctic mountains? 6. Which make car of 25 years ago had a model called the Bear cat? 7. The "Garrison" of a "Gar rison Finish" was a track star, pugilist, football coach, jockey, baseball pinch hitter or traveling salesman? The answers: 1. Relatively high, even though below last year. 2. Considerably fewer than half. 3. 19t hamendment was on woman suffrage. Repeal amend ment was 21st. 4. Late summer. 5. Off Australia. 6. The Stuti. 7. Jockey. MAIL TRIBUNE Is Speed Everything? If President Russell of the Southern Pacific realiz es his dream of a railroad system in this country, en tirely devoted to the profitable business of freight, he will of course have to change his company's advertis ing. Perhaps those attractive bill-boards showing a smiling and contented passenger reclining in a well upholstered seat, have already been withdrawn. ""TOO bad if they have. For they represented an im portant truth about rail-transportation and one of its outstanding advantages over any other medium of travel, namely on a train one can RELAX. This is tine especially after a good night's sleep, enjoying the morning paper, after an appetizing breakfast, and still relaxed and at peace with the world, strolling back to the observation or dome car and enjoying the scenery. That is not rapid transit, but it IS what being shot out of a cannon ISN'T pleasant and prof itable and safe ! 'THE present writer has taken several plane trips, and close friends have taken many more and long er ones, but we know during them we never relaxed, and never enjoyed the scenery, chiefly because there was none only clouds and a sketchy relief map many thousands of feet below. We are quite certain our friends didn't either, but they might not admit it- TF speed, and more speed, is the only objective then it must be granted the only way to travel is to fly. But it isn't. As we see it, that is the one and only advantage of air travel, and it is hard to believe that the present mania for speed and more speed, is going to enfure forever, or the love of leisurely travel train or ship travel is going to disappear entirely and the popular demand for such enjoyable and beneficial transportation vanish with it, because the Big Boys want it. AND after all, unless this country is going to be handed over to the Big Business interests entirely and worship of the Almighty Dollar become our ac cepted and only national religion, then popular de mand is something that will at least have to be reck oned with eventually whether the Billion dollar boys in this bountiful era of "peace, prosperity and plati tudes," think so, or don't. fF course in some cases speed is the essence. In case of emergency for example, with life and death in volved, or even when an important business deal hinges upon being at a certain place where one isn't, at a certain time. - But relatively speaking these cases are few and far between. And as indicated, to the average citizen there is more to travel than merely getting from one place to another in the shortest possible time. There is the pleasure and profit in getting there. Not money profit of course. But the educational, physical and mental profits involved. And no one who has travelled much will deny they are considerable. " I0IN the Navy and see the world" is a well-known slogan. Well why not join the effort to preserve train travel in this country, and SEE the country instead of flying blindly over it or taking your life in your hands on a "hell bent" freeway? Not that anyone in his right mind expects air travel to decrease, or denies that the passenger problem for the railroads is a real one. But the point we make and have made so many times before is that instead of following the example of President Russell of the S.P. and abandoning all passenger service because it doesn't pay, per se, why not first try to make it pay by modernizing and im proving it? FORTUNATELY many of the smaller railroad Pres- idents, are not surrendering without at least put ting up a fight in this direction. Take the Baltimore and Ohio for example. We are indebted to a subscriber who has sent us a page from Business Week of August 4th from which the following is an extract : "The economics of the lightweights were graphically demonstrated when a BitO train of three self-propelled diesel cars not even true lightweight cars made a Wash-ington-to-Chicago run on Memorial Day week end in 1955. The train carried 214 excursion passengers 80 per cent of capacity. The round trip fare was only $21.50, less than half the normal round trip coach fare. The revenue per passen ger mile was only 1.4 cents. Yet when results were analyzed, B&O discovered the revenues amounted to $2.95 per train mile against out-of-pocket operating costs of $1.23 per mile. This left a margin of $1.72 net operating revenue per train mile or 60 per cent of total revenues." The Santa Fe is experimenting similarly with a "high level" passenger train similarly designed to give passenger service at greater speed and less cost. DUT what is the SP doing along similar lines? lJ The answer is "NOTHING." Instead, it is looking 20 years into the future not with any intention of improving or reducing the over head of its passenger service but with the frank ad mission that it hopes to drop it throughout its system as it has here in southern Oregon, and expects all the railroads of the country to follow suit, thus achieving the railroad executives' ambition a national railroad system devoted exclusively to highly profitable freight. '""THERE ought to be a law passed to prevent this." 1 We appreciate that is a rather trite and discred ited expression of political frustration but in this par ticular case we mean it! There SHOULD be ! R.W.R. Thursday, August 9. 19S6 Demo Convention Plans Evoke Memories of 1932 for Wilson By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Democratic Convention Head quarters, Chicago (U.PJ It's the same city. But the time, the place and the faces have changed since the Dem- ocrats met here in 1932 to begin that that long end run to the White House. The clock and calendar make that 24 years plus, the Lyir c niiMs u e mocrats having met in the early sum mer that year. Al Smith is dead along with William G. McAdoo, Jimmy Walker and Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication ia permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Night Bill Lights? To the Editor: Why is it that a city the size of Medford is so lacking in the way of a summer recreational program for all ages? Their budget for parks is upward of $35,000 for the year to keep them looking good, but the people cannot utilize beauty for their taxes. The main reason that I am writing is to find out why they can't spend some of their budget for lights on the ball diamond at Hawthorne Park? The price for lights would be very small oompared to their budget, and many more people would be able to do something additional during the summer months. This year the Jackson County SoftbaU association had to play their teams (eight of which are from Medford) at dusk, as they could not afford to pay for the lighting of the Medford High school football field, -that is in adequate as a softball field any how. There are ten teams involved this year which would account for approximately 120 involved persons in this one sport. Mul tiply the 120 times the national average of 3.5 persons per family and you would have over a thousand indirectly involved people, or nearly 120 of the total population of the city. This would not include the attend ence that would come to the ball games. It would also give new interest to the city's program of summer recreation. So why dosen't the city coun cil look into the possibilities of more diversified summer recrea tional program so the people paying may benefit more from their taxes? B. J. Christianson Box 96, Jacksonville, Ore. (Sponsor of a ball team.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Back in the edge of Syracuse, New York, the other day, a motorist was doing a few miles above the limit in a speed zone when a traffic cop overhauled him and gave him a ticket. . Up to that point, it was a routine incident. From there on it departed radically from the normal pattern. The motorist paid his fine. Then he sat down and wrote a letter to the New York traffic bureau in which he said: "I want to compliment your officer. He acted in a most cour teous manner. He approached me like a gentleman and talked to me in the same manner. Re membering his courtesy, I shall watch my driving more careful ly hereafter." THAT is to say: Two gentlemen came to gether and as a result the in cident ended amiably, with everybody feeling happy about it. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could conduct our interna tional dealing on the same basis? THAT reminds me of an in cident related recently by a friend. He" was getting into his car to go back to work after lunch when another car drove up alongside and the driver said: "Could you direct me to Calif ornia street? I'm lost." The friend who was telling the story grinned and said to the stranger: "That is clear on the other side of town and I'm afraid you'd get worse lost if I tried to direct you. Just follow me and I'll lead you there." When the got to the desired street, the visitor thanked him warmly. "I travel around quite a lot," he said, "and this is just about the nicest: thing that ever happened to me. This must be a splendid town to live in." THAT prompts a question: What makes towns good towns to live in? The answer is easy. Just plain, simple COUR TSEY. ANY town where every body is courteous and helpful to others is a WONDERFUL town to live in. - v. kt " j 3m Oklahoma's Alfalfa BUI Mur ray. Newton D. Baker is gone. Boss ' Crump of Memphis. .. Ed Flynn, New Jersey's Frank Hague. They all were part of the disorganized opposition .which tried . . . back there in 1932 . . . to block the nomination of the youngish Franklin D. Roosevelt for president of the United States! FDR is dead, too, and the Democratic party's elder states man is a natty little man from Independence, Mo., whose name Mr. Roosevelt probably never had heard until long after he was settled in the White House. A Big Celebration That 1932 Democratic conven tion was a combination of a July Fourth and a hillbilly wed ding, with parades and frolics and some sharp shooting feuds added to that. And the key man in all of that ruckus, the one who yanked the lanyard for the Roosevelt victory salute isn't dead and gone at all, he's just forgotten. That man is John Nance Gar ner. Old timers will remember that Garner was speaker then and Mr. Sam that's Rayburn MattGr Of faCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop Middle Eastern Menace j Washington The further you dig into the background facts of the constantly developing Suez crisis, the more likely it seems that there may be shoot ing in the Middle East this sum mer. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will certainly 2k-1 Stewart Alsop do everything he can to prevent it if only because the appear ance of peacefulness in the world is held to be such an important Re publican elec tion asset. But in view of the p r e v a i ling moods of t h e British, French Eygp t i a n govern ments, ana me ,..rpta .Yisuv. irreconcilable positions that have been taken, it is hard to see how a clash can be avoided, Both London and Washington, ana particularly Washington, were caught completely by sur prise when Egypt's President Nasser vengef ully announced the immediate nationalization of the Suez Canal, in retaliation for Secretary DuUes's abrupt withdrawal of the American of fer to help build the Aswan high dam. A day or so before the Nasser speech, French Ambas sador Maurice Couve de Mur- ville suggested to the State Department that a grab for the canal was Nasser's most likely riposte. But his warning only evoked compacent laughter. rpAKEN thus by surprise, the -- American policy - makers were utterly unprepared to re act positively and constructively. The idea of calling a conference to insist on the internationaliza tion of the canal originated in the Britrsh and French govern ments, after British Prime Min ister Sir Anthony Eden had rather reluctanUy rejected a plan to blockade Egypt's ports without further ado. The scheme for a conference had already been agreed upon in principle In London when Presiden Eisenhower sent Sec retary Dulles to join in the talks there. What Dulles really did in London was simply to give his approval to the conference scheme, and to work out with the French and British the terms of the plan for internationaliz ing the canal that will be joint ly offered to the conference by Britain, France and the United States. WHAT Dulles did not do was considerably more impor tant. In brief, he did not reach any agreement with our lead ing allies he did not even try to reach any agreement about what would be done in the high ly likely event of the proposed conference ending in failure. Yet this is of course the essen tial problem. It is essential for several ex tremely simple reasons. In the first place, the Suez issue is not really a legal or practical issue. It is, at bottom, a naked test of will and power. But by its man ner and timing, Secretary Dul les's abrupt turndown of the Aswan Dam project "was a severe blow to President Nas ser's prestige. Prestige is what Nasser chiefly lives by. His real aim in grabbing for the- Suez Canal was not to get the money Secretary Dulles had just re fused him. His real aim was to restore and increase his prestige by showing that he could get away with inflicting the max imum public humiliation on the leading Western powers. By the same token, the real aim of the plan for interna tionalizing control of the Suez Canal is hot to insure free pass age of shipping. The real aim is to force President Nasser to climb down, to make him eat a dish of crow, to show, in short, llBISSI was his protege and pupil. Gar ner was a candidate for presi dential nomination in his own right. Locked up for him was a corral of delegates including the California and Texas spreads. And there it stood 24 years ago, with a lot of favorite sons controlling nearly half the con vention delegates and the FDR team stymied from gaining the two-thirds majority which con vention rules held then was nec essary to nominate. The conven tion sat all night bucking against that situation ' until Mr. Sam h was just Sam Rayburn then got the word from Speaker Gar ner to release his votes to FDR. That did it, and FDR was nom inated on the next ballot, the minor favorites breaking arms and legs and resolutions to get on the speeding band wagon. These assembled Democrats would be shocked, as by a bolt of lightning, if they knew today for whom Mr. Garner doubtless will vote on election day. next November. Perhaps you can guess. He warned his Texas vis itors that they must not repeat his choice. that he cannot get away with kicking the Western powers in the teeth. This is a legitimate and vital aim, moreover, for the very good reason that all the critically important Western in terests throughout the Middle East will be hopelessly jeop ardized if Nasser is not taught a sharp lesson. a BUT precisely for these rea sons, the odds are heavy that Nasser will not accept this scheme for internationalization of the Canal which is really a scheme for taking him down several pegs. If he does not ac cept, in turn, the Western pow ers will have only two choices. Either they can crow, them selves. Or they can take force ful measures to persuade Nasser to comply with their wishes. This is why the British are hurrying land and naval forces to the Mediterranean, and why Sir Anthony Eden Informed Secretary Dulles that he would use force against Nasser if worst came to worst. Since returning to Washing ton, Secretary Dulles has said that he was shocked and aston ished by the extreme hardness of the British and French at titudes. It is odd that he should have been, ior it has been clear from the outset that for Britain particularly, this test of will and power with Nasser is quite gen uinely a life and death matter. It is also a life and death matter for Sir Anthony Eden's govern ment, which will surely suffer a mortal loss of political support in Britain if Nasser triumphs in the end. - In these circumstances, there appears to be very little basis for the hopes expressed by Sec retary Dulles in his television report On his London journey. Furthermore, if Britain and France finally decide not to act against Nasser, there are always the Israelis. A resounding tri umph for Nasser is all too likely to spur Israel to a preventive showdown with her Arab neigh bors.' Altogether, the outlook is not pretty. . 1956. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Employment Higher In Mountain States San Francisco U.R) The U.S. Department of Labor re ported today that wage and sal ary employment in the eight Mountain states advanced by 35,000 from mid-May to mid- June. The total by mid-June was 1,592,000 in the states of Ari zona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, the department's re gional bureau of labor statistics said. Part of the increase in em ployment was due to the influx of vacationers at summer re sort areas which made necessary increased hiring. Traditional summer gains were shared by contract con struction, food processing and lumber operations. Pearson Substitute To Convention Named Portland (U.R) State Rep resentative Walter J. Pearson said today that Ken Rinke, chair man of the Multnomah county Democratic central committee, will take his place as a delegate to the Democratic national con vention next week. Pearson said that a press of personal business would keep him from attending the conven tion: He had been elected as a delegate -at-large. Most of the Oregon delegation to the convention planned to leave the latter part of this week for Chicago. Several members in cluding Chairman Sen. Richard L. Neuberger, State Rep. Alfred H. Corbett, Rep. Edith Green and State Sen. Monroe Sweet land, already are in Chicago. Today and By Walter OUR CASE AT SUEZ 1 The -London Parley about Suez, in which Secretary Dulles took a leading part last. week, was only a be-j ginn ing. Be fore the West ern .powers . can act fairly or effectively to assert their rights, it is es sential that they define precisely and Halter Lippmann publicly What they claim are their rights, and in what way their rights are being violated. For they can nev er win support at home or abroad for coercive measures un less their case is impeccable and their reasons indisputable. The London parley, with Mr. Dulles's televised speech inter preting it, have, if I am under standing correctly, defined the issue in this way. The right of Egypt to buy out the sharehold ers and then to nationalize the Suez Canal Company is not de nied. What is asserted is that by the international treaty of 1888 the Canal is an international waterway open in peace and in war on equal terms to the ships of all nations. This is the law which must be observed by the operator of the Canal, be it the old Suez Canal Company, the Egyptian government, or a new international authority. President Nasser has in fact promised to observe the 'law of the Canal, to compensate the owners of the company's shares and to operate the Canal as a free and open waterway. The issue between President Nasser and the three Western powers turns on the fact that they do not believe they can rely on him to resist the temptation to dis criminate, as he has already done in the case of Israeli ships. They believe that their rights under the treaty of 1888 will not be safe if President Nasser is in complete and sole administrative control of the operation of the Canal. IITHEN -the Foreign Ministers " met in London last week they were in a position where though they believed their rights were going to be violated, their rights had not in fact been vio lated. Moreover, convinced though they were that sooner or later Nasser would violate their rights, they could not argue that there was imminent danger of irreparable damage that had to be forestalled by immediate ac tion. There did not exist', therefore, a leeal or a moral basis for in tervention. There can be little doubt that if intervention in the form of economic sanctions or military action had been agreed upon in London, it would have aroused very wide sympa thy and support for Egypt, and serious popular opposition in Great Britain, France, and the United States. In the times we now live in it is impossible to resort to war, . or to measures just short of war, on the'claims that you believe that you are going to be hurt. Mr. Dulles was surely right in saying that inter vention at this stage in the de velopment of the Suez problem would be a violation of the United Nations charter. The London parley was there fore right in principle when, putting aside coercive interven tion on an emergency basis, it chose to internationalize the problem. The Canal is subject to an international treaty, and it is the vital interest of many na tions, not merely Britain, France and the United States, but also the Soviet Union and India, for example, that this treaty be up held and maintained. The West ern powers can defend their own interests only as they convince the other nations that they are not acting for special interests and asking for special rights. THE London parley decided to call an international confer ence, chose the place where it Frank Morgan ::;Ck.L CHAPEL MORTUARY Funeral Directors PHONE 2-8030 jfgSl 1 K'NG STREE" MEDFORD Tomorrow Lippmann was to be held, the date, and the governments to be invited. It might have been wiser to pro pose the conference, and then to consult with Moscow, Cairo, and New Delhi about the place, the date, and the list to be invited. For what the three' Western powers hope to achieve at the conference . is a most difficult and complicated thing, and it can be achieved, if at all, only with the active collaboration of the other powers. - What they hope -to achieve 'is an agreement by Egypt that the old Suez Canal Company be re placed as the operating agent by an international authority in principle something like that which has been set up in West ern Europe for coal and steel. This would be a brilliant solution of a thorny problem and, far from impairing the international prestige of Egypt, would greatly enhance it. It would be such a desirable solution that no effort should be spared to persuade President Nasser and his friends of its advantage.1 BUT in the present climate of opinion, When the winds of Mr. Dulles in his speech said he nationalism are so high, we dare not expect a quick agreement, had been asked "what will we do if the conference fails," and that his answer is that he is assuming that the conference will succeed. He could also, so it seems to me, see to it that the conference cannot fail, that it is not the kind of meeting which adjourns, having voted yes or no to our Western propositions. He should ask the conference to consider itself a continuing body concern ed with the modernization of the old treaty of 1888. As such.v it would be an influence for the ob servance of the treaty, and in case of a violation, it would be to the conference that the com plaints could be carried. Copyright 1956 New York : Herald Tribune Inc. Negro Democrat Sees Floor Fight on Anti-Segregation Chicago (U.R) Rep. Charles C. Diggs (D-Mich.) said today liberal Democrats may make a convention floor fight if neces sary for a platform specifically endorsing the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision. Diggs, Negro' congressman from Detroit and a member . of the platform committee, said he is prepared to "fight all the way" for a strong civil rights plank. Diggs has endorsed Gov. Averell Harriman for the nomi nation. He said he would not "pre judge" the action of the care fully chosen 15-member drafting subcommittee. But he said a mi nority report is already being considered if the platform com mittee declaration does not in clude outright endorsement of the integration decision. Bruising Floor Fight If this happens, it would clear the deck for a bruising floor fight on the explosive civil rights issue which already has southern Democrats edgy. They bitterly oppose specific mention of the Supreme Court. Diggs raised the prospects of a convention fight after south ern unrest, sparked by Adlai E. Stevenson's call for a strong civil rights plank, had been somewhat soothed. The southerners are staking their hopes that the platform writing group will "be able to come up with compromise civil rights language acceptable to both sides. Five of their con- tingency are members of the drafting group. Harold Snodgrast
